1. fortress - Noun
2. fortress - Verb
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. Margaret of Valois
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about. Gabriel García Márquez
Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant. Hjalmar Schacht
A fortress surrenders from within. Bulgarian Proverb
Unanimity is the strongest fortress. Danish Proverb
The fortress that parleys soon surrenders. Italian Proverb